Description

Magazine film made for television - these stories are probably found elsewhere in library in full.

Various shots of canoeists on a fast flowing river. Good shots of canoeist turning his canoe and manoeuvring between buoys. One canoeist capsizes. This may be a competition or training session. Women look through binoculars on the banks of the river. Canoeists have numbers. C/U of competitors climbing out of their boats and over a large tree branch then back into their boats (a kind of obstacle course). C/U of spectators. C/U of a man having difficulty climbing over the branch - he falls in.

C/U of a woman at a service station holding up a water spray. She sprays a woman's motorcycle goggles, these are special glasses which have windscreen wipers attached. We see the glasses in operation. C/Us of the woman spraying the water and of the woman in the goggles.

Panning shot of the Houses of Parliament. L/S of the Parliament from another viewpoint. Wooden carving of the interior of Parliament seen in C/U. Various parts of the model are shown. A hand picks something up from inside the model to show the scale. C/Us of various details of the model. C/U of two men looking at a blueprint of the Houses of Parliament. The blueprint is laid down revealing a workshop where men work on carved wooden benches and screens for parliament. C/U panning shot of the intricate carvings. C/U of man concentrating on his work. C/Us of the carvings. Men assemble wooden frameworks. C/Us of men at work on the carvings. C/U of their tools.

Man fiddles around with a miniature traction engine. C/U of him placing small pieces of wood inside the furnace for the engine. He lights a match. Man uses a foot pump to pump air through the engine - steam emerges from the funnel. The engine is attached to the front bumper of a car by a rope. Group of boys stand nearby watching. The miniature traction engine pulls the car along.

C/U of piece of metal being heated in the flames from a heap of coal. C/U of worker's face. Molten metal being poured into moulds. A piece of metal is then inserted into the mould. The piece of moulded metal is placed in a vice and then the stem is bent. Various shots of the instruments being made - bugles. Shiny bugles lined up on display.

Low angle of a rotary washing line. Man stands in his garden winding up his Hills Hoist type washing line. C/U of the man smoking a pipe and winding the handle which raises his washing line. Woman walking towards the camera carrying a washing basket. The husband and wife work together hanging out their washing. C/U of the woman. All the washing pegged, the woman walks away and the husband winds the hoist up higher.

10 telling images selected from British Pathé's extensive WWI footage. 'The war to end all wars' was a war without parallel: over 70 million military personnel were involved and over 17 million people died.